Dell 2650 error: memprefail

[Kuba Ober]

On Friday 29 February 2008, Hank wrote:
> I woke this morning to the following error:
>
>  memprefail
>
> Memory Device on Connector: BANK1_A
> Status Noncritical
> Device Name BANK1_A
> Size 512 MB
> Type DDR-SYNCHRONOUS
> Speed 3 ns
> Failures Single bit warning error rate exceeded

I had this happen once on a used PE2650. I took the RAM modules out, cleaned 
the connectors with isopropyl, and reseated. Problem gone. YMMV. Don't 
discount the connectors as the source of trouble -- it's cheaper to fix than 
getting new RAM, which may be blameless. Again, YMMV.

Cheers, Kuba